I'm trying to give each of my toddlers a space they can call their own and truly enjoy but I have friends that think I over do it. Is it wrong to paint your childs room in fun colors and dress it up with their favorite characters? Am I just a normal parent or am I spoiling them?
2007-01-12 09:36:56 · 17 answers · asked by pixiedustplease 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
It's fun doing up the kids room! I enjoy it myself! My 6 year old son's room is dinosaurs. His walls are light blue and he has a dinosaur comforter and a wall mural of a T-Rex and vynal clings of a 6 foot dinosaur going around the room! His friends love it!
My daughter is 2 and we just have started doing her room in butterflys. We have painted her walls a light pink and a yellow and pink comforter with butterflys and I have 6-8 large butterflys hanging around her room.
I want rooms they can enjoy but nothing too babyish so they can grow with their rooms. I figure I won't have to redo them again to close to the teenage years.
2007-01-12 12:20:41 · answer #1 · answered by party_pam 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When we moved into our new house in September, I thought about my son's room alot. We decided that we would not do characters and have him in a room that he could grow with. We went with a sports theme. He is 6. Then by Christmas the 'Cars" movie had come out and that was all I heard about was how he wanted his room to be "Cars". So for Christmas I finally broke down and took the sports stuff down and let him have the cars room. After all it is his room and as long as he knows that we cant change it everytime a new movie comes out what does it hurt? He is the one that spends all the time in there not me so why did I get to decide what his room had to look like! Let the kids be kids (within reason) and have a fun room!
2007-01-12 09:44:52 · answer #2 · answered by swanseaemtgirl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know any parent who doesn't decorate their childs room in the child's favorite theme.
My 3 yr old son's room in our new home was already painted blue, green and yellow. Each color on it's own wall. This was perfect because of the shades perfectly match his Scooby Doo bedding. He also loves Spongebob and the colors go perfect with that, too. My ultimate goal is to paint a mural on two different walls. One will have Shaggy and Scooby in underwater gear hanging out with Spongebob and Patrick while the rest of the gang sit in a submarine. One the other wall, Spongebob and Patrick will be wearing their "helmets" and hanging out in Scooby's world. He's really excited about it!
My 2yr old daughter's room is already painted yellow with bright colored flowers all over two walls and a fun hand painted border. It happened to be just how we wanted her room decorated. She loves it!
2007-01-12 17:25:24 · answer #3 · answered by Fulita 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Completely normal....I have seven kids and I still deorate each child's room individually to thier taste.It is a place where you want them to be happy and relaxed so that they will sleep well, it is a good start if they like the room.
I have four boys;
My 14yr old recently got his room decorated to a teen style room,he wanted a dark green room with a blacked out ceiling with glow in the dark stars everywhere and has covered the walls in posters.
My5yo&3yo share a room-my husband and I decorated it for them. They are really into farms and animals at the mo so at the very bottom of the wall we have tiny little fences,green fields,and farmyard animals,the rest of it is light blue with clouds,we have quite high ceilings so it worked well.
They are in gated bunk beds so one is in the sky and the other is by the animals.
My 17month old was on moved into his room last easter so it is just bright yellow.....we will adapt it in time.
It is lovely to personalise their rooms-after all they have little personalities they need to be nurtured.
2007-01-12 11:52:40 · answer #4 · answered by strictmom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My son's room isn't decorated at all. When he moved into the room I thought about hanging up things in a "wild Things" motif but then decided that he was Happy with his toys and it really wouldn't matter to him so I didn't do it. My daughter's room on the other hand is painted and has those wall stickies of flowers all over it. She enjoys the flowers and it helps her to stay in her room and play sometimes.
2007-01-12 10:13:33 · answer #5 · answered by Tetsi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love to make up my kids rooms. When I was pg with my 2nd, I got a bedspread for my oldest and painted all the kids that were on it, on the walls. She's got a full scene on all 4 walls of her room. Now I'm pg with my 3rd, so I have to put the 2 older girls together. I'm thinking of doing a hawaiian/beach theme and I'm sure I'll do something on the walls and my oldest would love a sky on the ceiling, so I'll probably do that.
I don't see one thing wrong with making a special space for your kids, but I would try to do something they can grow with.
I say go for it!!! Have fun!!
2007-01-12 09:46:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heck no go for it. Thats not spoiling. Just remember that your children will out grow what ever there into now. You may want to stay neutral. If not then just know that once they hit like 12 they will want something more grown up. I have a son whos 11 weeks he dont have a room yet, but once he does get one (in the spring) I will deck it right out! I cant wait!
2007-01-12 09:46:21 · answer #7 · answered by BOOTS! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we had my daughter's room painted a jungle theme until just recently. it had animals painted on all the walls and a big jungle like tree with a monkey in it and it was green (we did while i was pregnant so i wasnt sure if it was a boy or girl and that was pretty neutral) and now its painted pink and purple, we want to paint disney princesses and castles in it now. we just gotta get the time to do it. (my mother and me) and it will be shared by my daughter (the 3 year old) and the future daughter (as far as we know) the one im 6 months pregnant with. all im doing is giving my daughter a reason to like to go to her room every day and play and sleep in there. and be creative too. so i dont think it makes me a bad parent. and u shouldnt think that either.
2007-01-12 09:48:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want to do it and can afford it ... Go for it!
I had the best of intentions of doing a room that I thought would last my son (who's 2 1/2) until he was at least a preteen, but we are now in the process of making a CARS room! Who knows...maybe he'll even want to sleep in there all night one of these days!!!
Good luck! Let your kids join in the fun and create an awesome room!
2007-01-12 16:48:35 · answer #9 · answered by Amanda K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My son's room is Mickey Mouse! We painted 2 walls red and got a cheap border off ebay. We also just put random Mickey and friends things up =)
2007-01-12 09:41:47 · answer #10 · answered by Your Momma 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋